

Landing
Author: Emma Donoghue
Narrator: Laura Hicks
Unabridged: 11 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 05/07/2007
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Romance
Author: Emma Donoghue
Narrator: Laura Hicks
Unabridged: 11 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 05/07/2007
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Romance
Emma Donoghue, born in Dublin, is a playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her works of contemporary and historical fiction include the New York Times bestsellers Room and Frog Music. Her books have also been finalists for the Man Booker Prize, Commonwealth Prize, the Orange Prize, and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She also writes story collections, literary history, and plays for stage and radio. Find out more at EmmaDonoghue.com.
Laura Hicks is an Obie Award–winning actress who has appeared on Broadway, off Broadway, and in regional theater, film, and television. A native New Yorker and a Juilliard graduate, she has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Australia, Austria, Italy, and Ireland.
This book hit really close to home for me. It wasn't so much the situation - although that was very similar for myself and my wife - but rather the emotions attached to it. The burgeoning feelings through email and telephone calls; the first confession of love; that sudden realisation that you can't......more
“Charming…warmhearted, readable and entertaining. It rises above the commonplace with its razor-sharp prose, full-bodied portraits and shrewd observations.” Kirkus Reviews
“Explores with a light, sure touch the subject of desire across distances of various kinds: generational, cultural, even spiritual. Donoghue handles the complexities of the women’s relationship with ease.” New York Times Book Review
“Donoghue's sprightly novel is a comedy of manners, a romantic romp with a teasing twist. Like much of the talented writer’s fiction, the book is clever, well populated with eccentric characters and full of surprises…succeeds in catching the tenor of the times.” London Free Press